Colin Powell Is Ready To Endorse — When Colin Powell turns off his TV after the final presidential debate, he will have learned everything he is going to learn about the candidates vying to succeed his former boss, George W. Bush. Powell has made it clear that he has been thinking …

Shocking development: Mrs Obama decides enough is enough: “My husband was born in Hawaii and adopted by his step father, does that make him unpatriotic; she asks”, on a direct telephone to API. — Accusing API of colluding with American internet bloggers in an effort to bring down her husband …

Voting for Obama anyway — I just got an astounding e-mail from a Republican consultant I know well. He's a guy who's always thought Obama had a “glass jaw,” and was always among those agitating for hitting Obama harder. — Recently, he conducted a focus group in an upper-Midwestern state …

BRUNNER COMPELLED BY COURT TO ADMIT SHE'S BEEN CONCEALING TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND UNMATCHED REGISTRATIONS FROM LOCAL BOARDS OF ELECTIONS UPDATE: NON-RESIDENT OBOTS FRAUDULENTLY VOTING IN OHIO — Updated: The tip was accurate, but the Cleveland Plain Dealer got the story out first. See update after background.

Bill Ayers: ‘What could I possibly add?’ — Decades removed from his radical opposition to the Vietnam War, UIC professor William Ayers lies low amid the political furor — As his name was tossed back and forth Tuesday in the fury of the presidential campaign, 1960s radical William Ayers spent …

McCain, advisers divided over Wright attack — John McCain is at odds with many of his top advisers over launching a renewed attack on Barack Obama's ties to his long-time pastor and mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to campaign sources. — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin …

Murtha: Western Pa. ‘racist’ but Obama should win … PITTSBURGH (AP) - U.S. Rep. John Murtha says his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Barack Obama's victory margin in the state by 4 percentage points. — The 17-term Democratic congressman tells …

PALIN'S DELUSIONS WORSEN.... I can understand Sarah Palin feeling humiliated by her Troopergate scandal. An independent investigation concluded that she violated state ethics, abused the powers of her office, and lied about it. This isn't exactly easy to spin away this kind of violation of the public trust.

Working for the Working- Class Vote — For a guy who just four years ago was running his first statewide campaign, Barack Obama has made startlingly few missteps as a presidential candidate. But the moment Obama would most like to take back now, if he could, was the one last April when …

National Republicans Pull Ads in Louisiana — The National Republican Senatorial Committee has decided to pull its television advertising out of Louisiana, a decision that drastically reduces the party's chances at its lone takeover opportunity in this election cycle.

CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos — The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials …

Previewing the Final Presidential Debate — McCain will need to address economic concerns — PRINCETON, NJ — The third and final presidential debate, to be held at Hofstra University on Wednesday night, will provide John McCain — currently the underdog in the presidential race …

GOP deploys squirrels — Meet Tony Romo and Mickey Mouse. — They are this year's version of those dolphins that stalked John Kerry in 2004, swapping out “flip-flopping” for ACORN. — The nut-hunters swooped into Harry Smith's Manhattan nest this morning, surprising the CBS “Early Show” anchor.

Delay of Game: MLB Will Move a Game 6 for Obama — Would Start World Series Game 15 Minutes Later — WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — Major League Baseball has moved back the scheduled start time of any game 6 of the World Series so Fox can also air the half hour Barack Obama spot on Oct. 29.

The GOP's Bill Ayers? — THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN HAS ITS OWN QUESTIONABLE CONNECTIONS TO BOMBERS AND ASSASSINS. — The campaign of John McCain has made much of Barack Obama's relationship with Weather Underground bomber-turned-university professor Bill Ayers, whom Republicans call an “unrepentant terrorist.”

Roundtable on McCain, Rep. Lewis and Race — HUME: The panel is going to join us in just a moment to talk about what has become a heated issue in this campaign. — But before we start that, let's take a look at this. This is from John Lewis, the congressman from Georgia who was a prominent member …

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